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Police seek witnesses after B.C. high school teacher charged with sexual assault
Former North Vancouver school teacher arrested in Ontario
THE CANADIAN PRESS
Jun. 13, 2023 8:30 a.m.
Mounties say a former British Columbia teacher has been charged with an alleged sexual assault of a student at St. Thomas Aquinas Regional Secondary School in North Vancouver.
They say the assault is alleged to have happened while the man taught at the school between 2017 and 2019.
The RCMP say he was charged with sexual exploitation and sexual assault on May 2, and a Canada-wide warrant was issued for his arrest.
They say he was arrested by police in Windsor, Ont., on June 6.
Police say they are aware of social media discussions between people who may have been impacted or had knowledge of the incident.
They are encouraging anyone with information to reach out to police.
It might help if you told us his name!
Ex-priest guilty of molesting 5-year-old Michigan boy
after officiating funeral for boy's family
Natalie Neysa Alund
USA TODAY
A Michigan priest who preyed on a 5-year-old boy following a 1987 funeral service he officiated for the child's relative pleaded guilty this week to sexual assault, the state's head prosecutor said.
“Our team continues to work day and night to bring an end to an era of abuse that has hidden in plain sight for far too long and provide justice to those who have suffered years of unimaginable trauma,” Nessel wrote. “This guilty plea will hopefully close this painful chapter and open the opportunity for much-needed healing for those victimized by Delorenzo.”
In exchange for Delorenzo's guilty plea, additional charges filed against him were dismissed, according to the statement. Those charges related to the sex assault of another boy from 1995-2000, who attended Holy Redeemer School and Church in Burton, Michigan.
Delorenzo to spend at least one year behind bars
Delorenzo was initially charged in the 67th District Court in Genesee County. He was arrested in May 2019 in Marion County, Florida.
Sentencing is set for June 13.
Delorenzo is expected to be sentenced to five years probation, the first year of which he will serve in the Genesee County Jail, Nessel’s office said. Other conditions of the plea include he must register as a sex offender for life, pay restitution and undergo counseling.
Australian ex-priest convicted of child sex abuse pleads guilty
to 72nd victim, 193rd conviction
June 22, 2023 GMT
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — An Australian ex-priest convicted of child sex abuse pleaded guilty Thursday to sexually abusing a 72nd victim.
Gerald Ridsdale, 89, has been in prison since 1994. He is serving a 39-year sentence for a series of convictions for abusing children between 1961 and 1988 while he worked as a Roman Catholic priest in churches and schools across his home state of Victoria.
Bedridden, he pleaded guilty in the Ballarat Magistrates’ Court by video link from a prison hospital to a new charge of indecently assaulting a 13-year-old boy in 1987 while Ridsdale worked as an assistant priest at a school in Horsham, a town about 300 kilometers (200 miles) northwest of Melbourne.
Ridsdale will return to court Aug. 15 for sentencing on his 193rd conviction for child sex abuse.
His prison sentence has been extended seven times over the decades as more victims have come forward. In October, Ridsdale’s earliest release date was extended to April 2027 after he admitted abusing two brothers between 1981 and 1982.
Through his lawyer, Ridsdale told Magistrate Hugh Radford that he had been unable to walk since mid-2022 and his doctors have recommended palliative care. His medical conditions were not detailed.
Ridsdale accepted that the only appropriate sentence for his new conviction was additional prison time.
During his 29 years as a priest, Ridsdale was shuffled between 16 church posts. In 2017, a government inquiry into child sex abuse found his frequent relocations were evidence of the church covering up his crimes.
The inquiry found that the late Australian Cardinal George Pell, who became the third-highest ranking cleric in the Vatican in 2014, knew Ridsdale had been sexually abusing children years before his arrest. Pell denied any previous knowledge of criminal allegations against Ridsdale.
The Pell and Ridsdale families had long been close in Victoria. Pell spent 13 months in prison before his own child abuse convictions were overturned on appeal in 2020. Pell died in January.
And then, the real justice began.
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